I’ve got beef with most of Bangkok’s buffet restaurants. The food is almost always mediocre, it’s wasteful, and usually not a great deal to begin with. This is true of many hotels and Korean BBQ feasts, and encompasses both Bangkok’s hoopla over lower end places like Best Beef, Shinla, or Salang where you grill your own meat and traditional, expensive buffet […]

Thai food’s culinary cues come from a variety of sources. Although it’s common to see the Chinese culinary history being paid homage, rarely do people credit influence from the southern half of the Malay peninsula which they share. This isn’t just the case with food and I’m not sure if it’s in part because of […]